Remote Communication Software, Building an Organization, and Taking Big Swings with Grant Shaddick of Tella

Remote Work Productivity & Lifestyle

Grant Shaddick of Tella chats with Allan of RemoteCompass.com.

Show notes:

• sometimes, we need more than the basic screen recording tools
• professional video editing tools could be too overwhelming for simpler use cases
• Tella is a collaborative video editor for team communication, educational content, sales, etc
• their product enables remote and asynchronous work
• as an early-stage company, they recognize the value of fostering close relationships among core team members
• while they don't have an intention to build a co-located team, Grant recognizes the value of spending time in person with teammates
• Grant suggests that it's ideal to enable asynchronous work for most of the time as long as everyone gets together every week or month
• At an early stage, when playbooks aren't firm for the founding team, meeting up is more critical
• Small startups take big swings, the kind of moves that are typically decided together by the founding team
• At Tella, half of their work is done asynchronously while the other half is synchronous
• Tools Tella use: Tandem, Notion, Linear (and of course Tella)
• A job is likely being improvised if a core team member is wearing multiple hats (e.g. acting as a UX designer in the morning then a marketer in the afternoon)
• For improvisation-heavy roles, it makes more sense to have synchronous communication
• Heavily defined roles are more suitable for asynchronous communication
• Doing remote work right doesn't simply mean bringing your workflows from the office to your home